RARE EARLY ’70s BRONZE ABSTRACT PLANTER BOX BY McCARROLL & GILLESPE FOR FORMS+SURFACES Andrew Trimboli 'Libello' (dragonfly) and 'Grazia' (1959)

'Libello' (dragonfly) and 'Grazia' (1959)

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RARE EARLY ’70s BRONZE ABSTRACT PLANTER BOX BY McCARROLL & GILLESPE FOR FORMS+SURFACES Andrew Trimboli 'Libello' (dragonfly) and 'Grazia' (1959)Four panels of bonded bronze, designed by Billy Joe McCarroll and David Gillespe for FORMS+SURFACES of California, adorn this unlined wooden planter box. Heavely textured, impasto abstractions, seemingly formed by haphazard strokes from a trowel or palette knife, decorate four sides of the cube, mimicking the application of Venetian plaster. Produced in the 1970s. Bonded bronze, aka cold cast bronze, is made by pouring a mixture of liquid polymer